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- New features of VSVBX VideoSoft Custom Controls Version 3.0
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- Overall
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- Optimized speed for loading/unloading your VSVBX in your apps
- Creates smaller EXE and FRM files
- Around 20 new features.
- 15% smaller
- 50 page manual
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- IndexTab
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- New Properties
- BackSheets
- Defines the appearance of the back sheets behind the
- current tab.
- Options:
- 0 - None
- 1 - Shadow
- 2 - Sheets
- TabCaption
- Sets or retrieve the caption for an individual tab.
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- VSIndexTab1.Caption = "First|Second|Third"
- debug.print VSIndexTab1.TabCaption(1)
- Second
- VSIndexTab1.TabCaption(1) = "New Second"
- debug.print VSIndexTab1.TabCaption(1)
- New Second
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- TabsPerPage
- Determines the number of tabs that should be
- displayed in the control.
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- If this property is set to 0, the size of each tab
- is determined by the length of its caption. If is
- greater than zero, all tabs are DRAWN THE SAME SIZE
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- TabOutLineColor
- Defines the color to be used for the outline the
- tabs.
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- Great to customize the 3D appearance.
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- New Settings
- Two new tab styles:
- Chamfered corners
- 3D Chamfered corners
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- Other improvementes:
- Better appearance with enhanced 3D look
- Smoother tab scrolling
- Faster flicker-free redraws
- Keeps visually the tab order
- Automatic True Type font converting/matching for side tabs.
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- Elastic
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- Replace all the labels in your form with one elastic.
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- New Properties
- AccessKey
- Determines whether the Elastic should show and
- process access keys. Access keys are created
- by preceding characters in the Caption with an
- ampersand (&).
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- BevelChildren
- Determines whether the Elastic should draw 3-D
- frames around all its child controls or only
- around specified types of controls.
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- MaxChildSize
- Sets or returns the maximum size for the Elastic's
- child controls. The size is measured in Twips
- and may correspond to the width or height of the
- child control, depending on the setting of the
- AutoSizeChildren property.
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- The maximum size limit only applies to the child
- controls being resized by the Elastic. If
- AutoSizeChildren is set to uneven Spacing, for
- example, only the top child is affected. This
- property is useful to prevent controls inside
- an Elastic from spreading too much.
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- Command buttons, for example, are harder to use if
- they are too far apart from each other.
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- Set this property to 0 disables it.
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- MinChildSize
- Sets or returns the minimum size for the Elastic's
- child controls. The size is measured in Twips
- and may correspond to the width or height of the
- child control, depending on the setting of the
- AutoSizeChildren property.
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- The minimum size limit only applies to the child
- controls being resized by the Elastic. If
- AutoSizeChildren is set to uneven Spacing, for
- example, only the top child is affected.
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- This property is useful to prevent controls inside
- an Elastic from getting too narrow. It may be
- better, for example, to show only a few command
- buttons with readable captions than to show all of
- them truncating the captions.
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- This property can be used in conjunction with the
- Splitter property to prevent users from making a
- child control too small.
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- Setting this property to 0 disables it.
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- WordWrap
- Determines whether the caption text should be
- automatically broken between words if a word would
- extend past the edge of the control.
- Return characters will also break the caption.
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- New Settings
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- New AutosizeChildren Options:
- 5 Elastics Horizontally
- 6 Elastics Vertically
- 7 Proportionally
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- The Elastics Horizontally and Elastics Vertically
- options stretch only other Elastics inside the
- Elastic and spread all child controls. They can be
- used to center controls and to form clusters of
- controls inside an Elastic.
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- Awk
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- New Properties
- Match Quotes
- Determines whether the VSAwk parser should regard
- quote-delimited strings as single fields.
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- This features was added to facilitate parsing of
- quote and comma-delimited files such as those
- exported by most database and spreadsheet programs.
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- Double or single quotes are both recognized, but one
- does not match the other. Unmatched quotes in a
- line are ignored.
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- PostAt
- Returns the position of the specified field in
- the current record.
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- This property was designed to be used with VB's
- string functions. The first string position is 1.
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- This property is useful when you want to process a
- field based on its contents rather than on its
- position. See also the FieldAt property, which
- performs the reverse function.
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- FileMode
- Allows scan thru ASCII or binary files.
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- New Settings
- FS(Field Separator) improved features.
- Buffer increased from 255 bytes to 64 K.
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